Imperialism
This colorful writing in newspapers exaggerated and sensationalized events, eventually causing the Spanish-American War.
What is yellow journalism?
These are the four main causes of World War I.
What are militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism?
Lost Generation author of The Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
They were both president during the Great Depression.
Who are Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The attack on this Navy base in Hawaii led us to declare war on Japan.
What is Pearl Harbor?
What is dollar diplomacy?
This ship had 128 Americans aboard when it was sunk by German U-boats, and was part of what got the US involved in WWI.
What is the Lusitania?
What is the radio?
The depression was caused partially by this practice of borrowing money to invest in stocks.
What is buying on margin?
Who is Josef Stalin?
Abolished spheres of influence in China, allowing anyone to trade there.
What is the Open Door Note?
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What is Open Door Policy?
The US never joined, making it too weak to prevent another world war.
What is the League of Nations?
A movement of Black art and literature in 1920s New York, led by artists such as Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Farmers in the midwest US were displaced to California due to erosion and overfarming of the land.
What is the dust bowl?
This Supreme Court case justified the internment of Japanese-Americans during the war.
What is Korematsu v. US?
Theodore Roosevelt's volunteer regiment that won at San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War.
What are the Rough Riders?
Author of the Fourteen Points
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This trial about evolution in schools was no monkey business... it was a landmark in the struggle between modernism and traditionalism.
What is the Scopes trial?
This tax was meant to protect American businesses but ultimately backfired and worsened the global depression.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
We dropped atomic bombs on these 2 cities in Japan to end the war.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
We bought this series of islands from Spain, but then faced guerrilla insurgents led by Emilio Aguinaldo.
What are the Philippines?
Money paid by a defeated country to cover war costs of the winning country.
What are reparations?
A scandal of the Harding administration in which federal oil reserves were leased to private businesses.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This New Deal Program regulated the stock market.
What is the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC)?
Black labor leader who influenced FDR to issue executive order 8802, ending hiring discrimination for government jobs.
Who is A. Philip Randolph?